{"id":88012,"date":"2019-02-20T06:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/your-brain-needs-a-fitness-plan-heres-how-to-keep-it-in-shape"},"modified":"2019-02-20T06:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:22:38","slug":"your-brain-needs-a-fitness-plan-heres-how-to-keep-it-in-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/your-brain-needs-a-fitness-plan-heres-how-to-keep-it-in-shape","title":{"rendered":"Your brain needs a fitness plan. Here\u2019s how to keep it in shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-brain-needs-a-fitness-plan-heres-how-to-keep-it-in-shape2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article is reprinted by permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/\" target=\"_new\" class=\"\" >NextAvenue.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The basics of heart health have been drilled into our brains: Eat less saturated fat. Keep moving. Know your \u201cnumbers\u201d for cholesterol, blood pressure and BMI.<\/p>\n<p>But what about that brain itself? Although life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900, our \u201cmindspan\u201d \u2014 how long we stay cognitively healthy \u2014 hasn\u2019t kept pace.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-brain-needs-a-fitness-plan-heres-how-to-keep-it-in-shape-2019-02-20?rss=1%3Drss\">https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/your-brain-needs-a-fitness...ss=1%3Drss<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. The basics of heart health have been drilled into our brains: Eat less saturated fat. Keep moving. Know your \u201cnumbers\u201d for cholesterol, blood pressure and BMI. But what about that brain itself? Although life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900, our \u201cmindspan\u201d \u2014 how long we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}